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G. V. LEICESTER.

TDILET BEDSTEAD.

Patented Nov. Q, 1869.

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@aient GEORGE V. LEIOESTER, Ol?A BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

Letters Patent No. 96,599, dazed Nwmbef 9, 1869.

Arnxzenovsn. TOILET-BEDSTEAD Ehe-Schedule referred to in these Letten Patent aindfmiakig part of the same.

To all persons to whom these presents may come:

Be it known that I, GEORGE V. Lmcns'rnn, of Bost drical casepg, which turns freely on' the shaft I, and

ton, in the county of Suffolk, and State of Massachusetts, have made a new and useful invention having reference to Toilet-Bedsteads; and do hereby declare the saine to-be fully described in the following specification, and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 denotes a top view,

Figure 2, a longitudinal section,

Figure 3, a side elevation, and

Figure 4, a front view of the bedstead.

In this article of furniture, thereare combined a bureau, bedstead, and a case for the latter to fold into, the bureau, as constructed, constituting' a supportof the bed-frame, and a coverto the case, when the seid' frame is folded upward'into jt.

The-.case is also a. supporterof the bed-flame in its horizontal as well asin its vertical position. I

By the mechanism connected with the bed-frame, such. i'ame, during themovement of the bureau toward the case, will be elevated from a horizontal into a vertical position within such case, the moving of the bureau in a. direction `away from the case causing the bed-freine to descend to a horizontal position.

In thev drawings- A denotes the bedsfran'ie, it being rectangular in shape. 1t 'may be provided' with a. head-board, a, and a. foot-'boardJ so hinged or 'connected with it as to be capable of being turned up at right angles to it when it is in a. horizontal position.

lIhe said bed-frame is to have the usual sackingsprings, bars,.or other appliances for supporting a bed, `and it is to be pivoted to a bureau, B, or two ears, O C, projecting backward therefrom. r

Furthermore, the bed-flame extends within a case, D, in shape like a wardrobe.

The bureau B is furnished with an extension, E,'to

form, with such bureau, a. cover to the case, when the bed-flame is within it.

The mirror c of the bureau is fastened to the front of suchextension.

Besides aseries of drawers, l d, 86e., the bureau may have two closets, whose doors are shown at e e, one of such closets being to hold a pitoherand bowl, and the other to hold towels or other-articles.

A slider, Lperforated, to support a wash-bowl, is applied, like a drawer, to each or either end of the breeu.

lll-ius the bureau willcontain the ordinary appliancesoi a. bureau, as well as those ot' a wash-stand.

Two arms, G H, are extended from a cross-shaft, I, arranged at the rear and lower part of thecase. Each of such arms, at its front end, is pivoted or hinged to the bed-trame.

The arms- G H turn freely on the shaft I. The arm G enters a notch in 'or is iixed to a cylincontains arspiml spring, h, one end of which is fast- `ened to the shaft, and the other 'to the ease.A (See Figure 5, which is a. top view of the shaft, spring-case, and arm, and Figure 6, which is a transverse section of the case and the spring.)

Another shaft, K, is extended across the bed-frame in line with and between the pivots or hinges of the two arms.

On Vthis shaft, and concentric with it, is a cylindrical spring-case, t, from which an arm, 7f,`extends to and is connected with the arm H.

Within the case c', and around the shaft, is a spiral spring, l. (See Figure 7, which is alongitudinal seution ot' the spring-ease, vthe shaft, and other parts ailjacent thereto.) l

This spring l, at its inner end, is fastened to the shaft., Atv its outer end, such spring is fastened or hooked to the case.

fIhe shaft extended through. the'case has a ratchet, m, fixed to it, a retainingpawl, n, to operate with the ratchet, being plvoted tothe arm H. (See iig. 3.)

A spring, o, forces the retaining-pand up to the A-collar or eapstan-head, p, xed on the shaft K, and havingholes made' in its periphery, serves as a means of revolving the shaft,`whi ch may be effected by inserting a pin or ybar in one of the holes of the head, and turning such head in the manner in whiih Va ca-pStan is generally revolved.

The capStan-head, ratchet, and pawl thus servo t-o enable the active power of the spring to be either increased or diminished, as occasion may require, in order to cansethe arm H to do its part in effecting the elevation of' the bed-frame.

This bedeframe, while the bureau may,be in the act of being moved toward the case, will be elevated from a horizontal position to a vertical one within the latter bythe conjoint action of the two springs and the two al1-ms. 1n thc mea-n time, the bed-traine, supporting projections or ears G O ofthe bureau, will pass into the case with the bed-frame.

The bureau and its extension E, when up against the case, will constitute a cover to it and the hedframe.

In the buren-u is a desk, N, applied thereto like a drawer to its frame.

I claim as my invention in the said toilet-bedstead the following; that isto say- I claim the combination and arrangement of the two lifter-arms G H, their. shafts I K, and the spiral springs applied thereto.

I also claim the combination and arrangement oi' the bureau B, its extension E, the 'ears O, the else ,D5 the bed-frame A, andthe lier-arms, their springs h 1,'and the shafts IVK, the whole being snitssismltiallyY as described.

l also claim 4the combination Y of the spring -tension-regulating mechanism, viz, the capstan-head, ratchet, and retaining-pawl, with the springs imdtheir shafts, with the arms G H,combined with. the bedframe and thecase, connected with a bureau, as set forth.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, S. N. PIETER.

GEO. v. LEICESTEB.' 

